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The Kolmogorov complexity of a string is the length of its shortest description. We define a second quantised Kolmogorov complexity where the length of a description is defined to be the average length of its superposition. We discuss this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-17 Caroline Rogers , Vlatko Vedral , Rajagopal Nagarajan

We extend algorithmic information theory to quantum mechanics, taking a universal semicomputable density matrix (``universal probability'') as a starting point, and define complexity (an operator) as its negative logarithm. A number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Peter Gacs

We initiate the theory of communication complexity of individual inputs held by the agents, rather than worst-case or average-case. We consider total, partial, and partially correct protocols, one-way versus two-way, with and without help…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Harry Buhrman , Hartmut Klauck , Nikolai Vereshchagin , Paul Vitanyi

We have proposed novel measures based on the Kolmogorov complexity for use in complex system behavior studies and time series analysis. We have considered background of the Kolmogorov complexity and also we have discussed meaning of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-07 Dragutin T. Mihailovic , Gordan Mimic , Emilija Nikolic-Djoric , Ilija Arsenic

It is not obvious what fraction of all the potential information residing in the molecules and structures of living systems is significant or meaningful to the system. Sets of random sequences or identically repeated sequences, for example,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-28 David J. Galas , Matti Nykter , Gregory W. Carter , Nathan D. Price , Ilya Shmulevich

Kolmogorov complexity is often used as a convenient language for counting and/or probabilistic existence proofs. However, there are some applications where Kolmogorov complexity is used in a more subtle way. We provide one (somehow)…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Alexander Shen

Since the introduction of the Kolmogorov complexity of binary sequences in the 1960s, there have been significant advancements in the topic of complexity measures for randomness assessment, which are of fundamental importance in theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chunlei Li

The problem of defining and studying complexity of a time series has interested people for years. In the context of dynamical systems, Grassberger has suggested that a slow approach of the entropy to its extensive asymptotic limit is a sign…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 William Bialek , Ilya Nemenman , Naftali Tishby

We reconsider some classical natural semantics of integers (namely iterators of functions, cardinals of sets, index of equivalence relations), in the perspective of Kolmogorov complexity. To each such semantics one can attach a simple…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff

We introduce a method for analyzing the complexity of natural language processing tasks, and for predicting the difficulty new NLP tasks. Our complexity measures are derived from the Kolmogorov complexity of a class of automata --- {\it…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wlodek Zadrozny

A selection of the relevant theorems of Probability Theory that comes directly from Kolmogorov's axioms, Set Theory basic results, definitions and rules of inference are listed and proven in a systematic approach, aiming the student who…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Diego J. Raposo

The ability to precisely quantify similarity between various entities has been a fundamental complication in various problem spaces specifically in the classification of cellular images. Contemporary similarity measures applied in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 D Yoan L. Mekontchou Yomba

A general notion of information-related complexity applicable to both natural and man-made systems is proposed. The overall approach is to explicitly consider a rational agent performing a certain task with a quantifiable degree of success.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-01-18 Eugene Perevalov , David Grace

The main goal of this paper is to put some known results in a common perspective and to simplify their proofs. We start with a simple proof of a result from (Vereshchagin, 2002) saying that $\limsup_n\KS(x|n)$ (here $\KS(x|n)$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Laurent Bienvenu , Andrej Muchnik , Alexander Shen , Nikolay Vereshchagin

Some aspects of the predictability problem in dynamical systems are reviewed. The deep relation among Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, Shannon entropy and algorithmic complexity is discussed. In particular, we emphasize how a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Cecconi , Massimo Falcioni , Angelo Vulpiani

Although information content is invariant up to an additive constant, the range of possible additive constants applicable to programming languages is so large that in practice it plays a major role in the actual evaluation of K(s), the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Jean-Paul Delahaye , Hector Zenil

In this article we discuss the formal structure of a generalized information theory based on the extension of the probability calculus of Kolmogorov to a (possibly) non-commutative setting. By studying this framework, we argue that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 F. Holik , G. M. Bosyk , G. Bellomo

We study in which way Kolmogorov complexity and instance complexity affect properties of r.e. sets. We show that the well-known 2log n upper bound on the Kolmogorov complexity of initial segments of r.e.\ sets is optimal and characterize…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Martin Kummer

The clustering objects has become one of themes in many studies, and do not few researchers use the similarity to cluster the instances automatically. However, few research consider using Kommogorov Complexity to get information about…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Mahyuddin K. M. Nasution

By Kolmogorov Complexity,two number-theoretic problems are solved in different way than before,one problem is Maxim Kontsevich and Don Bernard Zagier's Problem 3 \emph{Exhibit at least one number which does not belong to} $ \mathcal{P}$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Yang Bai , Xiuli Wang